One of my students recommended Don’t Get Caught to me and said it was pretty great. I’ll say that it was pretty ok. I enjoyed it well enough but I’m definitely not quite the audience for it anymore. I guarantee that had I read this in high school that I would’ve tried to start my own Chaos Club myself…but now? Not so much. Here’s some basic plot stuff: Max is pretty much a blend in kind of guy which is kind of good (he doesn’t […]
Best Not to Get on Her Bad Side
So far the year of 2017 has been a dumpster fire for multiple reasons…many of those reasons you can guess, but also because I haven’t been able to find a book that I could lose myself in. It’s my turn for my book club selection and so I was feeling the pressure of trying to find something that ten women might like–no small feat. I’m glad that when I made my search for “suspenseful books” on the Internet that when I read the blurb about […]
I Am Plain, But Still Stuck
I don’t even know how to start this review. I really enjoyed the other Victoria Holt book I read, Mistress of Mellyn, but this one, no. A thousand times no. There was sexism, classicism, racism, I am sure I am forgetting some -ism. And yes, I do get that the setting that this book takes place in is just echoing what these times were like, it still doesn’t mean I have to like it. But more than that, the main character Drusilla sucks. She does. […]
For those looking to be terrified by something other than reality right now
Imagine, if you will, being suddenly blinded and forced to navigate the world while protecting your two young children, all while unseen monsters stalk you. Thus is the premise of Josh Malerman’s debut novel Bird Box. The plot jumps around in time with some chapters taking place several years in the past, when reports of strange and disturbing events in Russia begin filtering onto U.S. news channels. Something that people are seeing is making them lose their minds, causing them to murder people and/or […]